TV preview: Porn - What's the Harm? on BBC 3 at 9pm

Well look at this, our first venture into BBC 3 at 9pm and what a place to start. Porn - What's the Harm? looks at how easy access to pornography is affecting young people today. Not just teenagers either, really young children between five and ten. So porn, what is the harm?

The advent of the Internet has made porn easily accessible to just about everyone on the planet, as an accomplishment on it's own the Internet should highly commended. To design a medium by which someone can view something on the other side of the world seconds after it is created is a wonderful and incredible thing. It's important not to blame progress for what people do with it. Indeed, the realisation that Internet porn would be the next big thing gave the Internet the critical mass it needed to become huge in the first place.

But the dangers of Internet pornography is an issue that only a few generations have had to deal with so we're in uncharted waters.

Of course, as adults you can separate between acts you see in pornography and the acts in a real life bedroom. But for a generation raised in a world where the unreal and real mix so seamlessly it is much harder. So absolutely, education should adapt to meet the needs of a changing world and if this means we now need a change in how we address sex education and what age it is addressed then that should absolutely happen.

What shouldn't happen though is the kind of knee jerk reaction that usually happens when something regarding children happens. People will try and tell you that you're either for or against porn, but that's not true.

You don't need to pick a side, just stop and think. If you don't want to watch porn, don't watch porn. If you're a parent who rightfully wants their children to embrace technology, then all Internet providers and search engines are bound by law to offer filter services, so you can decide what you children have access to.

I could write a lot more on this but just watch the show and feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below.